ok, it could be a motorcycle or a truck too.
Not really "exotic", but I drive my jeep sans top and doors to meetings. Bugs the crap out of the elders. "stumbles" and it's impractical (so I was told) ya know. (there was a WT last summer -- something about priorities, recreation whatever that had a pic of a guy driving a jeep by the KH as some were coming out of it, probably for FS. I took great offense. LOL Didn't go to that meeting when it was studied....)
The elders here all drive their 4-door Buicks or vans. Good dubs, good.
~merfi
Appearance -- spiritually speaking.
i tried logging on here last night after i got home, but i kept getting a message saying that there was an error and i couldn't get on.
anyhoo, i walked in the hall last night with my parents, who also roped my inactive brother into going.
lol!
I wasn't going to go -- had the kids all excited to go see "Benchwarmers", then middle kid said "Isn't tonight memorial...?" Crap. I'm trying to wean them off this stuff. Anyway, so we went. I was feeling sort of hyperventilate-y before we left and I'm awfully glad that I had a seat in the row of the damned so I could try to compose myself. I was just a ball of nerves because of all that I know and feel, yet had to undergo this torture. (I'm still taking kids b/c I don't know what the ex -- he's JW -- would/will do as far as custody fights yadda yadda. Not willing to find out yet)
Kinda funny moment -- when the wine was passed to my 10yo, she leaned in to sniff it -- looked as though she was about to drink. LMAO
That letter at the end was so barf. I couldn't help but think that it was in letter form to make it sound more "official", therefore VERY IMPORTANT.
I hope this is my last one.
~merfi
for starters, tonight, i'm going to hang out at my local church's neighborhood gathering and get some food, then i'm heading off to the local synagouge to celebrate my hebrew roots.
how 'bout you guys?
OpenFireGlass, how fast can you get to Minnesota?
....and could you make a stop in Iowa on your way to Minnesota?
~merfi
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i need 4 more posts to be jediiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
I'm at work, too. Kinda slow.
Nearly lunchtime. What are you going to have?
(helping you out here, near-Jedi) LOL
~merfi
im rose!!!!
would anyone be interested in me?
im very nice, im a jehovahs witness, im 25, im friendly etc... interested in males from any country.
O...k...
(did you notice the google etc links that pop up based on this post?! ack! LOL)
well it happened, oh my goodnes, it only took like 3 hours going around in circles!!!
well its a very long story people, but i have to thankyou for the help yesterday, because i totally wasnt myself in the meeting and i actually questioned them and challenged them, and one of the elders is like wow you've changed, is this someone else talking?and i was like no, my questions are genuine, from me and hes like what are you studying at uni, theology?and im like no, sport and recreation!!!
!and at first i took my sister and i wanted her to come in but they wouldnt let her, then once i started questioning them, they could only say the same few things like the faithfull and discreet slaves are the directed ones and i have to believe them and then basicaly tried to make it that i was diassociating myself and i was like, no, i dont want to leave as long as i could research from other sources and they kinda ignored that and pretended like it was fine after telling me it wasnt, but disfellowshipping me because i said i couldnt promise them i wouldnt do a couple of things they frown upon again and that i didnt know if i was repentant untill i knew that they were wrong in my heart.
i do feel like a weight has been lifted
I can relate to this. I DA'd in the middle of a "complicated" JC where they were trying their damndest to DF me. I wouldn't let them have the power, so told them off in a three-pager that said it all. It was a weight off my shoulders and heart.
Life goes on -- welcome to it. :)
~merfi
here are the scanned copies i promised i would post.
thanks to my wonderful husband, he made it all possible, as he is a computer whiz!
these copies show the out and out deception on the part of the organization.
Is there a way to make these bigger?? I really really want to see this...
I'm compiling a hug copy/paste doc of all this stuff. No reason YET, but good to have on hand.
Appreciate all this, LL. XO
~merfi
ok, i'm sure all of us have met some incredibly bizarre jws over the years --- i have met some that could have been characters in a movie...just unbelievably weird.
i've shared some of my stories with a good friend (non jw) and she swears i'm making this stuff up.
how in the heck could i make these people up??
They were ALL weird at my KH. Which probably makes me stand out as the weird one for not fitting their mold. Like serendipity, I also do my repairs around the house... I'd tell the sistas about my latest washing machine fixing adventure and they'd just look at me all stupid like. As if I maybe should find my place as the weaker vessel and knock this crap off and call a brudda to help with such complicated things. I also play in the mud in my jeep -- sometimes we'd go thru the puddles on the way to meeting, so we all had to 'jump' or get mud on our spiffy clothes. The elders didn't care much for the jeep dripping goo in the parking lot...
So yeah, I was the weird one. And now I'm gone, so the clone-like sisters are once again united.
~merfi
That hearse story just made my skin crawl, but I literally laughed out loud at the monitor reading it... oh the indignity!! LOL
ok, i'm sure all of us have met some incredibly bizarre jws over the years --- i have met some that could have been characters in a movie...just unbelievably weird.
i've shared some of my stories with a good friend (non jw) and she swears i'm making this stuff up.
how in the heck could i make these people up??
sorry, clicked too quick or somethin. Double post....
